Nigeria, Feb. 5 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday refused to admit documents tendered by human rights activist and SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, in his cybercrime trial for calling President Bola Tinubu "a criminal."

The trial judge, Mohammed Umar, rejected two caches of documents brought by the defence team in separate rulings.

In the first ruling, the judge declined an oral application by Mr Sowore's lawyer, Marshal Abubakar, seeking to tender printouts of media publications as evidence.

The documents included reports on the SSS dismissing 115 officials for misconduct, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charging five former governors with corruption, the EFCC dismissing 27 officials over fr...